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We also went to restaurants quite often - so we were quite wasteful. But if I would do it next year again I'd also take a smartphone with me.

A giant wasteful boondoggle. The second is too.

Edit: I don't just rant on my Twitter account, but ranting is the most wasteful use of my time, hence the emphasis.

The "war on drugs" is not simply some stupid wasteful boondoggle; it is truly a heinous crime against humanity. Some folks scoff when they hear a statement like that, but it really is true.

Again, pretty wasteful when you think about it compared to using a Phantom. Now it's just a matter of getting all theaters to use digital projection.

Mongo's disk format is extremely wasteful, the database files are gigantic. That is a real problem and there is no way to compact this to anywhere near the size something like Postgres would have for the same data.

The compound effect can easily be the equivalent of running on hardware from several years ago, even if no individual layer was grossly wasteful. 3.

Because as a country, you shoulder the cost - through your government's wasteful allocation of capital. Congratulations.

At first, it seems wasteful to throw away a once-used tool, but if all you do is critical work, you must be certain that your tools are reliable and correct. Once you have a complete set of nice hand-me-down spares squirreled away for coarse work, any subsequent used tools go in the recycle bin.

Oh, and it's completely ridiculous that DHS is enforcing IP. I mean, what a completely inappropriate and wasteful use of that department. Edit: Did a Google search for "MediaaFire" which brought up nothing relevant.

Reject our throw-away culture and planned obsolescence, be more effecient and less wasteful with natural resources, recognizing that unless you plan to be a full-on monk you will most likely need to buy some things in life. On the other hand, statements like this strike me as narrow, lacking perspective.

This is all wasteful activity that defeats the entire economic purpose of firms. The modern cynicism is corrosive to our long term prospects as a country, even if it is correct individual advice for the current environment.

It's convenient to have a bunch of separate projects that share no state or code, but also wasteful. So often, the tool used to manage the central repository, which needs to cleanly handle a large codebase, is different from the tool developers use for day-to-day work, which only needs to handle a small subset.

The only things that attract universal condemnation are wiggle-words like "corruption" and "pork" and "wasteful spending" on which everyone can project their own viewpoint and still act like they are in agreement with everyone else. Lessig goes wrong from the very first sentence of this article: "We Americans are disgusted with our government."

Now, if youre not from the USA, I can already hear you objecting that its impractical to drive a small fleet of ocean-going vessels on suburban streets, or that its wasteful to retain a staff of thousands just to make the daily commute, or that its not all that great, environment-wise, to knock over city blocks every time I make a Starbucks run. And, in your country, Id guess youd have a point.

Chinese find the legalistic contortions American politicians have to go through to do something generally favoured as awkward and wasteful. We see allowing elites to enrich themselves off market reforms to help them buy into the idea of change as distasteful whereas from a social utilitarian perspective it's strategically kosher.

The model shows that the arms race is not only socially wasteful – a prisoner’s dilemma built directly into the market design – but moreover that its cost is ultimately borne by investors via wider spreads and thinner markets. Last, we show that frequent batch auctions eliminate the arms race, both because they reduce the value of tiny speed advantages and because they transform competition on speed into competition on price.

If you think that the government does a poor job of allocating the absolutely colossal amounts of money currently spent by social programs, or you recognize that trying to "do a good job" and prevent fraud, and all the other social engineering requires a vast, wasteful bureaucracy, then this is an interesting option. This is a program that eliminates extreme poverty, but requires almost no infrastructure.